Do you support suicide assistance?

Do you support suicide assistance?

  • Yes

    Votes: 21 44.7%

  • No

    Votes: 16 34.0%

  • Don´t know

    Votes: 8 17.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 4.3%
  • Total voters
    47
It is probably easier to build a rocket to send to Mars and back from scratch than it is to get a Living Will! :lol:
 
Maria said:
It's wrong to take Terri's life away without her consent. It doesn't matter if she is unable to make the decision at the time when she was in this condition. It was very wrong of her husband to end her life by starvin' her to death. By " endin' someone's life " is still morally wrong. If, Terri hadn't make a livin' will at the time before she fall into this terrible condition, then her husband shouldn't have end her life in the first place. He SHOULD support her through until her fate or destiny takes over to end her life naturally. Like for instance : Karen Ann Quinlan. Does that ring a bell to you ? Her devoted Catholic parents stood up for her for years and refused to end her life until Karen died on her own by natural cause. I am very impressed by her parents' showin' love for her daughter. It touched people's lives. That's what I would like to see in some parents - but, unfortunately, I don't see many of them are like Karen's parents.
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Terri was being kept alive by machines. If these machines werent around, she would have died a long time ago as nature would have intended her to.
 
Tousi said:
It is probably easier to build a rocket to send to Mars and back from scratch than it is to get a Living Will! :lol:
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Actually, it's very easy. You just request the forms, fill them out, and have the document notarized. It's really that easy.
 
Daredevel7 said:
It makes me wonder if later in the future if we will develop MORE technology to keep people alive but still brain dead or suffering while still incurable. This is kinda depressing to me.
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Yea, if it is my time to go, let me go. Dont keep me alive in a vegative state..
 
Oceanbreeze said:
The Living Will was in existence before we even heard of Terri Schiavo. If you go to the hospital for any reason, you are asked if you have one. If you don't, you're asked if you want to draw up one. The hospital is required by law to ask if a living will exists.
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Yea, even before the whole Terri situation, I knew what a living will was but I didnt realize the importance of it if anyone should endure the same fate as Terri did.
 
Oceanbreeze said:
Actually, it's very easy. You just request the forms, fill them out, and have the document notarized. It's really that easy.
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From what little I've heard over the years, it is fraught with pitfalls, especially in dealing with doctors....
 
Maria said:
For your information, I ain't worry. It is just that I don't agree about the brain-dead thing that some of you believe it died first before the heart. Brain-dead don't make the body turnin' BLUE until the heart stops beatin' then it will turn BLUE - meanin' that the body is officially DEAD. :)
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ok but problem is - the time has come and we have become so medically-advanced that we have an ability to play God. We have an ability to keep body alive nearly indefinitely... usually for organ harvesting purpose even though the person is clinically dead.... or hell - we can cyro-freeze you! (cryogenics). That's why our laws & medical ethics need to be updated to include this PAS issue.
 
Maria said:
It died as you stated ? It didn't die until her husband starved her to death. She died by starvation in the hands of her husband. It means to end livin' or life.
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What if it was in the 1800s and this happened to Terri when she fell into the comatose state? Would she have died right at that moment or lived for another several years in a vegative state?
 
Tousi said:
From what little I've heard over the years, it is fraught with pitfalls, especially in dealing with doctors....
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I'll grant you that. It's not without it's issues, but that's why you should have more than just the Living Will in place. A health care proxy should also be appointed and a durable power of attorney. But, that's not to say it's not easy to attain. All you have to do is ask for the forms. We asked a nurse to give us the forms and we filled them out and had them notarized.
 
shel90 said:
Yea, even before the whole Terri situation, I knew what a living will was but I didnt realize the importance of it if anyone should endure the same fate as Terri did.
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and don't forget about Dr. Kevorkian aka Dr. Death
 
shel90 said:
What if it was in the 1800s and this happened to Terri when she fell into the comatose state? Would she have died right at that moment or lived for another several years in a vegative state?
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:hmm::hmm::hmm:

:)
 
Maria said:
For your information, I ain't worry. It is just that I don't agree about the brain-dead thing that some of you believe it died first before the heart. Brain-dead don't make the body turnin' BLUE until the heart stops beatin' then it will turn BLUE - meanin' that the body is officially DEAD. :)
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If u want to live in a vegative state for decades, that's your choice but it is my choice and my right not to want that for myself. Everyone has the right to choose how they should live out the end of their lives. There is no right or wrong.
 
shel90 said:
Terri was being kept alive by machines. If these machines werent around, she would have died a long time ago as nature would have intended her to.
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You're partially correct. Terri was placed on a ventilator for a time after the initial collapse, but she was taken off of it. She was able to breathe on her own. The only thing at issue and what was challenged in court all those many times, was her feeding tube. That was the only thing sustaining her. That's what made this so controversial. Certain people thought the tube was merely basic care; while others akin it to medical intervention. Michael Shiavo ultimately won the court challenge to have her feeding tube removed and it was in March 2005.
 
Oceanbreeze said:
You're partially correct. Terri was placed on a ventilator for a time after the initial collapse, but she was taken off of it. She was able to breathe on her own. The only thing at issue and what was challenged in court all those many times, was her feeding tube. That was the only thing sustaining her. That's what made this so controversial. Certain people thought the tube was merely basic care; while others akin it to medical intervention. Michael Shiavo ultimately won the court challenge to have her feeding tube removed and it was in March 2005.
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And it was pulled for kinda the same reason the ventilator would, right?
 
Oceanbreeze said:
You're partially correct. Terri was placed on a ventilator for a time after the initial collapse, but she was taken off of it. She was able to breathe on her own. The only thing at issue and what was challenged in court all those many times, was her feeding tube. That was the only thing sustaining her. That's what made this so controversial. Certain people thought the tube was merely basic care; while others akin it to medical intervention. Michael Shiavo ultimately won the court challenge to have her feeding tube removed and it was in March 2005.
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Back in the 1800s, there were no such things as feeding tubes. Would she have lived this long if we were in the 1800s? So, my question since people are debating on whether her family should have let her die naturally or forced her to die, which one was it? Did she really die naturally?
 
Tousi said:
And it was pulled for kinda the same reason the ventilator would, right?
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Not necessarily. She was taken off the ventilator when it was demonstrated that she had the respiratory drive to breathe on her own. This occured some time after her initial collapse.
 
shel90 said:
Back in the 1800s, there were no such things as feeding tubes. Would she have lived this long if we were in the 1800s? So, my question since people are debating on whether her family should have let her die naturally or forced her to die, which one was it? Did she really die naturally?
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Good questions. :)
 
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